Air appoints new CEO in senior team restructure

Air platform has restructured its senior team with a new CEO and new managing director of Air Club.

Paul Glynn has stepped into the CEO role, supporting both Air Club and strategic partners with a variety of technology, transaction, training and business capabilities to help enhance their equity release and later life lending propositions.

Ben Halhead has also been appoitned as head of technology, working to further advance Air’s focus on the technology capabilities needed to drive the development of the later life lending market for advisers and partners.

A series of internal promotions have seen Mike Taylor become managing director of Air Club, responsible for running the club on a day-to-day basis. He will be supported by director of sales, Jon Tweed, while Stuart Wilson, founder of Air, will continue to provide strategic input as chair of Air Club.

Paul Glynn, CEO of Air, said: “Air is a unique proposition in this market and supports thousands of advisers across the UK with access to market leading rates, accredited training and insights into how they can build their businesses – even in the challenging market conditions that we are facing.

“As someone who has worked in financial services for many years, I look forward to working with Mike, Jon, Ben and our strategic partners as we leverage the resources of the Group to improve the support, tools and features we can offer the market."

Stuart Wilson, chairman of Air Club, added: “Having launched Air and helped it grow successfully over a number of years, these appointments are the next step forward in its evolution. With a strong team led by Paul and Mike determined to support our members and partners, as well as my work on horizon scanning, we are ideally positioned to help the market prosper – even in the current environment.

“Air is committed to supporting advisers of all sizes across the market and helping them to build the best businesses they can and today’s move is a step forward in achieving this.”